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Subject: ER 2002 Call for Contributions Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 16:01:34 +0100 From: Benkt Wangler benkt@IDA.HIS.SE To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

Dear Colleague,

Please find enclosed CFP for the 21st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2002.

The same information is available at the conference web site URL: http://er2002.cs.uta.fi/.

Best Wishes and Welcome to Contribute!

Benkt Wangler

___________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS

21st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling - ER 2002

October 7-11, 2002, Tampere, Finland Host: University of Tampere

http://er2002.cs.uta.fi/ ___________________________________________________________________

SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE

Conceptual modeling is fundamental to the information systems discipline, including new e-world activities. It has become a major mechanism for understanding and representing organizations and the information systems that support them. ER 2002 encompasses the entire spectrum of conceptual modeling. It addresses research and practice in areas such as theories of concepts and ontologies underlying conceptual modeling, methods and tools for developing and communicating conceptual models, and techniques for transforming conceptual models into effective information system implementations including advanced applications such as e-commerce, knowledge management, learning environments, telecommunications, and enterprise management systems.

Conceptual models instantiate various levels of abstraction. They must facilitate understanding and foster communication between technology experts and those who would benefit from the application of those technologies. They must enable users of these technologies to understand their current applications and visualize new applications. To do so our understanding and knowledge about information and how to describe, represent, and intelligently utilize it must be further developed. We invite researchers and practitioners from both computer sciences and management information systems. Reports of new ideas and approaches, useful experiences and informative experiments are all welcome. Regular and industrial papers are solicited along with proposals for workshops, tutorials, panel sessions and posters. In particular, ER 2002 will emphasize conceptual modeling issues related to enterprise-wide information systems and information systems to support virtual organizations. The relevant topics include the following:

MAIN TOPICS OF INTEREST

Theoretical Foundations of Conceptual Modeling - description, conceptualisation, and formal methods for conceptual modeling - information modeling concepts, ontologies, and concept systems - conceptual change and schema evolution - views, integration of modeling paradigms - design methodologies and their evaluation (ER, OO, ORM, and others) - spatial, temporal, and multimedia aspects in conceptual models - metadata, its interpretation and usage - ontological and conceptual correctness in modeling,

Conceptual Modeling in Information System Development - conceptual modeling for e-world systems and organisations (e-business,

e-government, e-learning, e-welfare, e-democracy, e-health, etc.) - conceptual modeling for organisational learning and learning organisations - conceptual modeling for knowledge management systems - conceptual modeling for user interfaces - conceptual modeling for product line engineering - conceptual modeling for digital libraries - conceptual models as calculation devices - information integration

Transforming Conceptual Models into Effective IS Implementations - implementations of information systems for virtual organisations and society - mobile information systems as implementations of e-world systems - enterprise modeling and knowledge management: methods and tools - advanced database models, e.g. spatial, temporal, and multimedia models - data warehouses and metadata repository design - data mining and conceptual modeling on the basis of data mining results - methods and tools for developing and implementing an organisational memory - software engineering methods and tools for IS implementations - conceptual modeling of XML data - methods and tools for internet data management

Other topics where conceptual modeling is the major theme are welcome.

IMPORTANT DATES - Preliminary workshop proposals: 20 December, 2001, - Final workshop proposals: 30 January, 2002, - Submission of paper abstracts: 20 February, 2002 - Submission of full papers: 8 March, 2002 - Tutorial proposals and Panel proposals: 8 March, 2002 - Notification of acceptance of conference papers: 10 May, 2002 - Camera-ready full papers: 10 June, 2002 - Submission of Workshop papers: 17 June, 2002 - Submission of Industrial Presentations: 17 June, 2002 - Submission of Demonstrations and Posters: 17 June, 2002 - Notification of Workshop papers, Poster acceptance, and Industrial Presentations: 5 August, 2002 - Camera-ready Workshop papers: 6 September, 2002 - 21st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling - ER2002: October 7-11, 2002

Call for Papers (and submission guidelines)

Authors of regular papers are invited to submit original contributions not exceeding 5,000 words (approximately 20 double-spaced pages) electronically. These full papers may be research papers or industry oriented papers. They will be reviewed by the Program Committee and accepted papers will be included in the proceedings. The papers must not be submitted to or accepted by any other conference or journal. The authors must submit the abstract of the paper by 20 February, 2002, and the full paper by 8 March, 2002. The ER2002 home page (http://er2002.cs.uta.fi/) will contain further details on electronic submissions.

The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series in time for distribution at the conference. It will contain full papers and invited papers. In parallel to the printed volumes, the content will be made available as full-text electronic versions of LNCS books. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for possible publication in the Data & Knowledge Engineering journal.

Call for Workshop Proposals

A series of workshops will be held in conjunction with the Conceptual Modeling ER2002 conference to encourage interaction between research groups and also between researchers and practitioners. We solicit proposals for workshops related to the conference topics. Workshop topics should be inline with the conference topics. Proposals for workshops should stress how they intend to provide more insight into the proposed topics with respect to the main conference. The scope definition of the proposal should encompass only some of the topics of the main conference. Preliminary workshop proposals should be submitted to the workshop co-chairs, Antoni Olivé (olive@lsi.upc.es), Eric Yu (eric@cs.toronto.edu), and Masatoshi Yoshikawa (yosikawa@is.aist-nara.ac.jp) by December 20, 2001. Prior contact with the workshop co-chairs is encouraged. Final workshop proposals must be submitted by 30 January, 2002, to the workshop co-chairs. Preprint of the workshop materials will be distributed at the workshops. Proceedings of all workshops will be published as a single volume in Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, separate from the conference proceedings, after the workshops.

Call for Tutorial Proposals

We solicit tutorial proposals of interest to ER2002 attendees. Proposals should clearly identify the intended audience and the requested level of expertise for attending the tutorial, as well as provide the scope of what will be covered. The proposal should also indicate whether it is planned to be presented as a 90 min tutorial (inside the conference), or a half day (3 hours) or a full day (6 hours) pre-conference tutorial. Proposals should be submitted to the tutorial chair, Veda C. Storey (vstorey@gsu.edu) by March 8, 2002.

Call for Panel Proposals

We solicit proposals for panel sessions related to the conference topics about which there is controversy and thus a need for public discussion. Panel proposals should be at most two pages long, specify the questions the panel will discuss, and should include at least a tentative list of panelists. We strongly encourage panels that have a mixture of 2 academic and 2 industry panelists (plus the chair). We expect that a range of viewpoints will be represented in the panel session. The role of the panel chair is to state the initial relevant questions and moderate the panel session. The other panelists are requested to give a short talk and to discuss/debate among the panelists and to interact with the audience. Proposals should be submitted to the panel chair, Heinrich C. Mayr by March 8, 2002 (mayr@ifit.uni-klu.ac.at).

Call for Industrial Presentation Proposals

We solicit submissions for industrial presentation contributions. Reports on significant measurements of results and problems encountered, or new innovative methods or systems are especially valuable for the research community. The presentation can be a demonstration and an extended abstract (at most 2,000 words), or only an extended abstract, whose content describes an industry-oriented topic (e.g. some advanced application, or experiences of application of new software). The presentation proposal will be evaluated by the industry chair and accepted papers will be published in the workshop volume. Demonstration proposals should describe the software to be demonstrated and specify the kind of hardware required. In the case of a demostration, prior contact with the webmaster is recommended. Special equipments are not provided. Proposals should be submitted to the industrial chair, Olavi Maanavilja (olavi.maanavilja@m-real.com), by 17 June, 2002.

Call for Demonstrations and Posters

During the Conceptual Modeling ER2002 conference, a special room will be reserved for posters and demostrations. Industrial or academic research projects of any scale are invited to illustrate innovative concepts, theories or prototype systems on a poster and as a demontration. Proposals should include the title, names of presenters, and one-or-two-page outline describing the project, and what would be presented. The outline will be reviewed and included into the workshops proceedings. Posters and demostrations will be presented informally to visitors. It is not a talk in regular sessions. Proposals should be submitted to the demonstration and poster chair Jyrki Nummenmaa, (jyrki@cs.uta.fi), by 17 June, 2002.

ORGANIZATION:

Conference Chair: Hannu Kangassalo, University of Tampere, Finland

Program Co-Chairs: Stefano Spaccapietra, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland

Salvatore T. March, Vanderbilt University, USA Yahiko Kambayashi, University of Kyoto, Japan

Workshop Co-Chairs: Antoni Olivé, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Masatoshi Yoshikawa, NAIST, Japan Eric S. K. Yu, University of Toronto, Canada

Tutorial Chairs: Veda C. Storey, Georgia State University, USA Vijayan Sugamaran, Oakland University, USA

Panel Chair: Heinrich C. Mayr, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Industrial Chair: Olavi Maanavilja, M-real Corporation, Finland

Demonstration and Poster Chair: Jyrki Nummenmaa, University of Tampere, Finland

Publicity Chair: Benkt Wangler, University of Skövde, Sweden

Local Arrangement Chair: Jyrki Nummenmaa, University of Tampere, Finland

Registration Chair: Erkki Mäkinen, University of Tampere, Finland

Webmasters: Jarkko Leponiemi, University of Tampere, Finland (jl@cs.uta.fi)

Treasurer: Martti Juhola, University of Tampere, Finland

Social Activities Chair: Tapio Niemi, University of Tampere, Finland

STEERING COMMITTEE REPRESENTATIVES Tok Wang Ling, Steering Committee Chair, National Univ. of Singapore Bernhard Thalheim, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany Peter P. Chen, Steering Committee (Emeritus), USA

Area Liaisons: Asia Tok Wang Ling, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore Australia and Pacific Area: Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Massey University, New

Zealand North America David W. Embley, Brigham Young University, USA South America Alberto H. F. Laender, Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Program Committee

The following experts are invited to the Program Committee. Changes are still possible.

Stefano Spaccapietra, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, PC Co-Chair Salvatore T. March, Vanderbilt University, USA, PC Co-Chair Yahiko Kambayashi, University of Kyoto, Japan, PC Co-Chair

Gove Allen, Tulane University, USA, Paolo Atzeni, University of Rome, Italy, Hiroshi Arisawa, Yokohama National University, Japan, Terry Barron, University of Toledo, USA, Dinesh Batra, Florida International University, USA, Joachim Biskup, University of Dortmund, Germany, Mokrane Bouzeghoub, University of Versailles, France, Marco A. Casanova, Catholic University of Rio da Janeiro, Brazil, Tiziana Catarci, University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy, Stefano Ceri, Milan Polytechnic, Italy, Roger H.L. Chiang, University of Cincinnati, USA, Wesley Chu, University of California at Los Angeles, USA, Deb Dey, University of Washington, USA, David W. Embley, Brigham Young Univesity, USA, Andreas Geppert, University of Zurich, Switzerland, Paulo Goes, University of Connecticut, USA, Nicola Guarino, National Research Council LADSEB-CNR, Italy, Terry Halpin, Microsoft Corporation, USA, Jean-Luc Hainaut, University of Namur, Belgium, Igor Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, Matthias Jarke, Technical University of Aachen, Germany, Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University, Sweden, Gerti Kappel, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria, Alberto Laender, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, Stephen W. Liddle, Brigham Young Univesity, USA, Tok Wang Ling, National U. of Singapore, Singapore, Akifumi Makinouchi, Kyushu University, Japan, Heinrich C. Mayr, University of Klagenfurt, Austria, Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, University of Campinas, Brazil, Robert Meersman, Free University of Brussels, Belgium, Elisabeth Metais, University of Versailles, France, Takao Miura, Hosei University, Japan, Mukesh Mohania, I.B.M. India Research Lab, India, Renate Motschnig-Pitrik, University of Vienna, Austria, John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada, Sham Navathe, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, Jyrki Nummenmaa, University of Tampere, Finland, Daniel O'Leary, University of Southern California, Antoni Olivé, University of Catalunya, Spain, Maria Orlowska, University of Queensland, Australia, José Palazzo de Oliveira, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Christine Parent, University of Lausanne, Schwitzerland, Guenther Pernul, University of Essen, Germany, Javier Pinto, Catholic University of Chile, Chile, Alain Pirotte, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, Niki Pissinou, University of Southwestern Louisiana, USA, Sandeep Purao, Georgia State University, USA, Sudha Ram, University of Arizona, USA, John Roddick, Flinders University of South Australia, Australia, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA, Sumit Sarkar, University of Texas at Dallas, USA, Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Massey University, New Zealand, Michael Schrefl, University of Linz, Austria, Arne Solvberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, Il-Yeol Song, Drexel University, USA, Veda Storey, Georgia State University, USA, Vijayan Sugumaran, Oakland University, USA, Mohan Tanniru, Oakland University, USA, Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia, Toby Teorey, University of Michican, USA, Bernhard Thalheim, Brandenburgian Technical University, Germany, Olga De Troyer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, Ramesh Venkataraman, Indiana University, USA, Yair Wand, University of British Columbia, Canada, Shan Wang, Renmin University of China, China, Christopher Welty, Vassar College, USA, Kyu-Young Whang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, The Netherlands, Carlo Zaniolo, University of California at Los Angeles, USA, Esteban Zimanyi, Université Libre de Bruxelles(ULB), Belgium,

CONFERENCE PLACE

Finland is situated in northern Europe between the 60th and 70th parallels of latitude. It is one of the Nordic Countries. It is the seventh largest country in Europe, with 5.2 million inhabitants. Most of the population is living in the southern part of the country. Finland has a national strategy to make the country into an information society. Some recent advances show that this effort has developed well. You will find more information from the pages of Virtual Finland:

• http://virtual.finland.fi

Tampere is the third biggest city in Finland (about 192 000 inhabitants) and the most important centre outside the capital area. It is located in Southern Finland on a beautiful place between two big lakes, about 180 km north from Helsinki.

• http://www.tampere.fi/english.htm

Due to its industrial background and universities, Tampere is at the leading edge of high technology and the information highway. Nationally and to some degree internationally the city is already a significant centre of information technology. Tampere's municipal policy for the 21st century emphasizes information as a key to the future.

Connections are good: direct flights from Stockholm (1 hour) and Copenhagen (2 hours), good connections to the Helsinki airport from all over the world, and then several domestic flights from Helsinki to Tampere every day (30 mins.).

Train connection from the center of Helsinki to the center of Tampere every hour (about 2 hours). Bus connections from Helsinki airport and downtown Helsinki to Tampere every hour (about 2 hours). See the web page:

• http://www.tampere.fi/conventionbureau/location.html

Two universities: University of Tampere and Technical University of Tampere.

Conference venue: Tampere Hall,

Tampere Hall Congress Centre was inaugurated in 1990 and is the largest congress and concert centre in Scandinavia. Its modern architecture and integral works of art make Tampere Hall a sight worth seeing in itself.

• http://www.tampere-talo.fi/TampereHall/general.htm

• http://www.tampere-talo.fi/TampereHall/links.htm

Conference Hall is 500 - 600 metres from the railway station. Most of the main hotels are within walking distance from the Tampere Hall.

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SPONSORED BY:

University of Tampere

Nokia

TietoEnator

The ER Institute (ER Steering Committee)

IN COOPERATION WITH:

Finnish Information Processing Accociation

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